DERM TERMS

Question 1

first to appear and most characteristic lesion to help classify disease?

Answer 1

primary lesions

Question 2

these lesions evolve over time into secondary lesions?

Answer 2

primary skin

Question 3

skin lesions are characterized by how they are grouped into distinctive _____?

Answer 3

configurations

Question 4

name this grouping or config of lesions:

arranged in a circle or ring shape

Answer 4

annular

Question 5

name this grouping or config of lesions:

arranged in arcs or portions of a circle

Answer 5

arciform

Question 6

name this grouping or config of lesions:

intersecting arcs and circles

Answer 6

polycyclic

Question 7

name this grouping or config of lesions:

lesions occur in wavy lines, creeping

cutaneous larvae migrans

Answer 7

serpiginous

Question 8

name this grouping or config of lesions:

bull’s eye pattern, encircled round spot like a:

target lesion of erythema multiforme

Answer 8

iris grouping

Question 9

name this grouping or config of lesions:

lesions in broad bands following dermatome

herpes zoster or shingles

Answer 9

zosteriform grouping

Question 10

name this grouping or config of lesions:

lymphangitis, contact dermatitis due to poison ivy, shin excoriations from itching xerotic skin

Answer 10

linear grouping

Question 11

these lesions are from criss cross patterns forming a network

erythema ab igne on shins
levido reticularis
x-ray dermatitis

Answer 11

retiform grouping

Question 12

groups of lesions without any distinct patterns

irregular collections of individuals lesions

urticaria, insect bites, chicken pox

Answer 12

irregular grouping

Question 13

define ulcer

Answer 13

depressed area of the skin with loss of the superficial layers due to a destructive process

Question 14

define scars

Answer 14

fibrous connective tissue with loss of normal elastic fibers

Question 15

define keloids

Answer 15

extend beyond the area of original injury

Question 16

define atrophy

Answer 16

depression in contour of skin

thinning of skin

loss of subcutaneous skin fat in chronic peripheral arterial

Question 17

define lichenification

Answer 17

thickened skin from scratching or rubbing

hypo pigmentation

Question 18

define telangectasia

Answer 18

harmless dilated torturous superficial capillaries

spider veins

familial

triggered in pregnancy

Question 19

name this skin pigmentation:

shades the skin from uv light damage

Answer 19

melanin

Question 20

name this skin pigmentation:

oxidized hemoglobin iron that stains the skin brown

Answer 20

hemosiderin

Question 21

name this skin pigmentation:

stains the skin yellow if there is dietary excess

Answer 21

carotene

Question 22

name this skin pigmentation:

stains the skin yellow as in jaundice of the hepatobiliary diseases

Answer 22

bile

Question 23

name this skin pigmentation:

these pigments occasionally stain the apocrine sweat

Answer 23

blood pigments

Question 24

this is an in-vitro noninvasive diagnostic technique that magnifies the skin in such a way that color and subsurface structure in the epidermis, demo-epidermal junction and papillary dermis becomes visible?

Answer 24

dermoscopy

Question 25

what is this traffic assessment? arrange for biopsy

Answer 25

high risk lesion

Question 26

what is this traffic assessment? monitor or refer

Answer 26

moderate risk lesion

Question 27

what is this traffic assessment? reassure patient and monitor

Answer 27

low risk lesion

Question 28

name this part of the dermoscopy 3 point checklist? asymmetry of color and structure in one or two perpendicular axes

Answer 28

asymmetry

Question 29

name this part of the dermoscopy 3 point checklist? pigment network with irregular holes and thick lines

Answer 29

atypical network

Question 30

name this part of the dermoscopy 3 point checklist? any type of blue/white color

Answer 30

blue white structures

Question 31

using a clear plastic or glass slide check for blanching of a skin lesion? the blanching generally suggests

Answer 31

diascopy vascular lesion like telangectasia or pigmented lesions

Question 32

this is a sign in which the blister margin spreads with finger pressure, extends the bullae, physically demonstrates lack of normal epidermal cell adhesion

Answer 32

nikolsky's sign

Question 33

this sign indicates the appearance of pinpoint bleeding upon forcible removal of a. scale of psoriasis occurs in conditions where the dermal papillae are elongated and fragile *pinpoint bleeding upon paring of a hyperkeratotic plaques suggest a?

Answer 33

auspitz's sign of psoriasis verrucae

Question 34

this reaction occurs when physical injury on previously normal skin area triggers a new lesion?

Answer 34

koebner's phenomena isomorphic reaction

Question 35

under woods light examination, erythrasma illuminates?

Answer 35

coral red

Question 36

under woods light examination, pseudomonas glows?

Answer 36

white to yellow, green pus

Question 37

under woods light examination, urine in porphyria glows?

Answer 37

orange to pink

Question 38

under woods light examination, microsporum glows?

Answer 38

yellow green in tinea capitis

Question 39

under woods light examination, trichophyton glows?

Answer 39

they do not glow

Question 40

giemsa stained smear of blister base scrapping?

Answer 40

Tzanck smear herpes simplex

Question 41

normal day temp? normal night temp?

Answer 41

30 degree Celsius or 86 degree Fahrenheit 34 degree Celsius or 93.2 degree Fahrenheit

Question 42

extensive irreversible death of tissue?

Answer 42

gangrene and generally due to loss of vascularity secondary bacterial infection and putrefaction is called wet gangrene

Question 43

excess terminal hair growth in areas of the body that are not androgen sensitive generalized in testicular tumors

Answer 43

hypertrichosis

Question 44

excess body or facial fair in women in androgen sensitive areas

Answer 44

hirsutism

Question 45

name this alopecia: autoimmune mediated hair loss disease that progressively attacks hair follicles progress to alopecia universalis

Answer 45

alopecia areata

Question 46

name this alopecia autosomal dominant male pattern baldness, receding hair line and top of head hair loss

Answer 46

androgen alopecia

Question 47

what is atopy?

Answer 47

without apparent cause

Question 48

abnormal dryness of skin, very common?

Answer 48

xerosis

Question 49

any of several generalized skin disorders due to a genetically caused molecular defect in keratinization process resulting in retention of keratinocytes rather than normal desquamation cracks in skin rare

Answer 49

ichthyosis

Question 50

name this reaction secondary skin eruption hypersensitive to a dermatophyte fungal antigen acute inflammatory vesicular tinea pedis cross reaction

Answer 50

dermatophytid reaction